blog fans: after tomorrow I will be offline for awhile. See you soon after the big move!

Ten is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2 and 5. Ten is the smallest noncototient, a number that can not be expressed as the difference between any integer and the total number of coprimes below it.
Ten is the second discrete biprime (2.5) and the second member of the (2.q) discrete biprime family. Ten has an aliquot sum σ(n) of 8 and is accordingly the first discrete biprime to be in deficit. All subsequent discrete biprimes are in deficit. The aliquot sequence for 10 comprises five members (10,8,7,1,0) with this number being the second composite member of the 7-aliquot tree
Ten is a semi-meandric number.
Ten is the sum of the first three prime numbers and also of the first four factorials. Ten is the eighth Perrin number, preceded in the sequence by 5, 5, 7.
Ten squared equals 100.
A polygon with ten sides is a decagon, and 10 is a decagonal number. But it is also a triangular number and a centered triangular number.
Ten is the number of n-Queens Problem solutions for n = 5.
10 is two written in binary.

> the limo pulls up to the double glass doors> > a man alone in a laundromat with only his camera phone> > and his thoughts of shapes and forms and order> > then clean shirts too and a phone with full memory>

On the eve of my departure from these rooms with a balcony I caught a pigeon investigating the eaves for a place to roost. This blog started with a nest and as I am leaving here another is perhaps beginning.

The iris bushes are blooming. There's so many I'm thinking of taking some bulbs to my new house.

About once a year I get a notice to be randomly drug tested. I get a bottle of diet 7-Up and go to Doc in the box. It's much more weird for the nurse who has to pour my urine into two seperate vials and then dispose of the remainder into the toilet I used but did not flush as per instructions. I just load, unload, and sign on the bottom line. And off I go to the races.

And fill this cup halfway.